The very latest formulas are now supported in Excel - the latest ones being the stock formulas. I find the number of previously unsupported features that are now supported astonishing considering the short time span since the code base was switched over. I have used Microsoft Office since 1985 and it has never been as stable as it is today, On the Mac side, support for automation via JavaScript and Objective-C was added to AppleScript support. The Visual Basic Editor was rebuilt from scratch (and is still not quite done in 2019). The entire code base was abandoned and replaced with the same code baseĪs Office for Windows Word, Excel and PowerPoint. During the 2016 product cycle Office, and Excel in particular, underwent a complete remake. I was telling users here in the forum to complain directly to Microsoft's Satya Nadella about how neglected the product was.Īpparently, all our complaints resulted in sweeping changes. I think the first general release build was simply the worst commercial software I had ever used. It was a distinctly different code set from Office for Windows.
When Office 2016 first came out the code base was the same as Office 2011 for Mac.
However, I want to give credit where I think credit is due. I agree that they could have done better.